Klamath
River Trip and Film
Festival
– October 7, 8 & 9
Come
back in time to see the incredible future of a
beautiful people and their wondrous
watershed.
Raft with Karuk,
Hupa and Yurok on the
Klamath. Learn how the river
and the environment were cared for before the
tumultuous Gold Rush. See how Native American
people lived in complete harmony with nature,
how they developed a culture and a profound
spirituality based on keeping the world in
balance.
Center of the
Universe
–
Katimin
and the confluence
of Salmon and Klamath Rivers
–
Photo
by Jack
Ellwanger
River
Trip, Film Festival, Indian Salmon Dinner,
Organic Wine Reception, Two nights lodging ~
$255
You can join us
for one, two or three days of this unique
experience – or, any part of the
schedule.
Friday,
October 7, we will gather in Northern
California’s ancient Karuk village,
Panamnik (now Orleans) on the Klamath
River. After the Klamath Restoration
Council meeting you will enjoy a fireside
feast of local organic and native foods,
and organic locally produced wine.
Saturday,
you will learn how ancient people used
fire to keep the forest healthy for all
the native plants and critters, and why
that matters to the fish. In the evening
you will feast on fresh wild salmon
roasted Indian style over a madrone fire
and participate in the first Klamath Film
Festival.
Your options for
accommodations include camping and
riverside cabins.
On
Saturday, October 8, we will float down
the river and explore this awesome
country. The learning gets even better
as we go. You will learn firsthand from
the Klamath’s native people, why the
fish are revered and are such an
important part of the native culture.
Dennis Martinez leads an exciting
workshop about ancestral watershed
management and forest ecology.
Saturday
night you will be treated to the first
Klamath Film Festival. Four great
documentary and story films about the epic
water, fish and human dramas will be
presented. Sunday is optional for
workshop, and a cultural river
trip.
To be
a contributing PelicanNetwork member, just
send a donation to us. There is not a
minimum amount
requested.
Klamath Film Festival Features:
XUN – Our
River by
Jack
Kohler
On the Backs of Buffalo by
Salmon
Stroich Center of the Universe by
Andy
Chambers A Trail of Water by
Emelia
Berol
Your
palate will be treated royally by local
culinary talent with organic cuisine that
is making this region famous.
This
special experience costs $295 per person
for two nights’ accommodations, based on
four people per cabin – but if you are a
contributing PelicanNetwork member the
cost is only $255. Your options for
accommodations include camping and
riverside cabins.
Cost: •
One night’s lodging and river trip,
dinner, & film festival $215
($245
non members)
• Two
nights’ lodging, reception, and river
trip, dinner, and film festival $255
($285
non members)
•
Three nights’ lodging, reception, two
river trips, dinner,& film festival,
eco cultural trip
$355($385
non members – if you choose to camp,
deduct $40 each night)
Camping at
Ti Bar or Dillon Creek is an option. Total
cost would be $175 with
camping.
This
is a cultural and ecological
restoration
effort.
One
hundred and fifty years ago this
great river was invaded by
thousands of non Native people in
search of gold. The newcomers
badly disrupted the land and
removed the Native
people.
Then,
the fish and the forests were
assaulted by commercial interests
and the government.
Through it all, the
Native People, the
Karuk, Hupa and the
Yurok, struggled to keep
their culture alive with
the belief that someday
they would be called on
to return and be
responsible again for
the land.
Our
trip will float to the
“Center of the World,”
the middle of the
Klamath watershed where
Karuk believe humanity
was created to maintain
balance in the
world.
Karuk
established a spirituality around
their cultural principles to keep
the world in balance. For
thousands of years they
established the practice of
conserving resources which is at
the center of their spirituality.
You will be treated to their rich
history, and learn how that
history is the promise for the
future.
On
this trip you will learn the
Karuk creation stories and how
the Native people here today
are working to restore the
natural well-being of the
Klamath watershed.
Klamath Restoration
Council
Our
mission is to restore
and protect the uniquely
diverse ecosystem and
natural resources of the
entire Klamath River
watershed.
We
believe this will be
accomplished with
actions and legislation
that integrate sound and
proven techniques based
on Tribal knowledge,
local experience and the
best of Western
science.
To
carry forward this
mission, the Klamath
Restoration Council
will:
•Create
an effective force for
restoration by uniting
all people, in a
consensual forum, who
share an interest in the
sustainable use of the
resources in the entire
Klamath River basin and
bioregion,
•Develop,
promote, and aid in
implementing initiatives
designed to restore this
ecologically diverse
basin to a balanced
ecosystem.
•Foster
a greater understanding
of the spiritual,
cultural, traditional,
economic and
recreational importance
of the natural resources
in the basin.
•Create
public support for
actions in the
regulatory, legislative
and legal arenas to
restore and protect the
Basin.
•Persuade
public agencies to
return tribal
stewardship of ancestral
territories and sacred
sites, currently being
managed by those
agencies.